Downstream Oil and Gas Activities

Already, videos are starting to pop up on Youtube depicting heavy lines of cars in New Jersey townships awaiting a fuel up at area gas stations in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. For those old enough to remember, the images of cars and trucks lined up waiting - sometimes futilely - to fuel up their vehicles is reminiscent of scenes that played out across the country in the early and late 1970s during the Arab oil embargo and subsequent gasoline shortages. In one of the post-Sandy videos, the driver passes a seemingly endless line of cars sitting idle on what appears to be a highway leading to a gas station. View the video here: In another, the driver, in Somerset County, N.J., notes he...

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